“ The Invention of Morel may be described, without exaggeration, as a perfect novel.Bioy Casares’s theme is not cosmic, but metaphysical: the body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom.
Bioy makes us laugh at our foibles with an affectionate yet elegant touch.Behind his post-Kafka, pre-Woody Allen sense of nonsense is a metaphysical vision, particularly of life’s brevity and the slippery terrain of love.” Suzanne Jill Levine “The Argentine Adolfo Bioy Casares is an urban comedian, a parodist who turns fantasy and science fiction inside out to expose the banality of our scientific, intellectual, and especially erotic pretensions.
It is this keenness of thought and expression that buttresses Borges’s claim of the novella’s perfection.” The Times Like the best science fiction, of which this is an exemplar, Bioy’s themes have become ever more relevant to a society beholden to image. “A masterfully paced and intellectually daring plot.
“After The Invention of Morel it's not possible to continue writing novels in the same way.” Roberto Bolaño There have been numerous film and theatre adaptations of this work. As the model for Alain Resnais and Alain Robbe-Grillet's Last Year in Marienbad, it also changed the history of film. Greatly admired by Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, and Octavio Paz, the novella helped to usher in Latin American fiction's now famous postwar boom. Inspired by Bioy Casare s's fascination with the movie star Louise Brooks, The Invention of Morel has gone on to live a secret life of its own. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious. Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to T he Turn of The Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth.
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